Don't blink.

A Glass of Ghana

I am watching an amazing show on C-Span 2 about Ghana, a country on the coast of africa, next to the ivory coast.
I saw some amazing, amazing shots of the coast.
Imagine a beach, with a *forest* of palm trees several feet off the shore.
Very tall, with a slight mist inbetween the trunks.

The main source of income for the Ghananians is fishing
there is a technique they use with a net to caputre fish.. with several men pulling with their strength to haul in a great net full of their catch.
There is an old man that holds the rope inbetween the pulls, as it is braced around one of the large palms on the edge of the "forest"

They have been fishing this way for so long, that the rope has left furrows in the bark from being wrapped and pulled around the tree.

cracking open a coconut..

I've never had the milk from a coconut.. but this guy can chop it fresh and make it into a perfect cup with that machete thing.

I fear i'd cut my finger off trying to do something like that.